Almost 20 per cent of all Macau SAR households lived in public housing as of 2021, the latest Population Census carried out by the Statistics and Census Bureau (DSEC) reveals.
Overall, between 2011 and 2021 the number of households living in economic housing (26,553) and social housing (12,963) surged by 61.3 per cent and 121.4 per cent.
Local authorities plan to develop 28,000 public housing units in the New Area Zone A landfill, of which 24,000 are expected to be completed by 2024, including 10,000 economic housing units.
Economic housing projects are currently also in development in Avenida Wai Long, long Ha in Taipa, Rua Central de Toi San and Avenida Venesclau de Morais in the Macau peninsula.
According to the census, there were a total of 202,727 households in 2021, up by 18.7 per cent from ten years ago, with the average household size slightly decreasing to 2.98.
Analysed by the number of household members, two-person households predominated some 25.6 per cent of the total households, up by 2.3 percentage points from a decade ago.
Still, the majority of local households lived in owner-occupied units – units belonging to household members – accounting for 73.4 per cent of the total households, or 48,091, up by 2.6 percentage points since 2011.
Meanwhile, tenant households totalled 39,148 and the corresponding proportion dropped by 5.1 percentage points from ten years ago.
